Limbaugh Rips Fox, Megyn Kelly for Pushing ‘War on Women’ at Debate

Mediaite ^ | 8/7/15 | Josh Feldman

[jimbo123]

Rush Limbaugh wasn’t exactly happy about last night’s debate, and took a few shots at Fox News and Megyn Kelly for how it went down.

Donald Trump and at least one of Kelly’s own colleagues weren’t happy with her line of questioning last night, and Limbaugh pointed out today that Kelly and her co-moderators Bret Baier and Chris Wallace got far more airtime than any of the candidates.

He also brought up Kelly’s question “filled with snark about Jesus” directed at John Kasich.

But what astonished him the most was how the Fox moderators basically made it seem like there’s a Republican “war on women.” And while he didn’t single out any questions in particular, but last night Kelly confronted Trump about his sexist attacks on women and asked Scott Walker, “Would you really let a mother die rather than have an abortion?”

[P-Marlowe]

Would you really let a mother die rather than have an abortion?”

If she aborted, then she wouldn't be a mother.... Unless you consider that what is in her womb is a baby.

[subterfuge]

I’m sure the FOX talking heads just spew whatever they’re told to say. Sucks to be them.

[Aria]

I just wonder how often these days a doctor has to tell a mother it’s either her or the baby. I imagine it’s used as a justification for pro-killing far more than the actual circumstances warrant.

[Beowulf9]

I wonder who is the head of the strategies at Fox and sets their opinions or policies at Fox.

[goodwithagun]

Somebody needs to call out the MSM on the mother’s life and abortion issue. Do you know how rare that is? It’s practically a non-issue. It shouldn’t be focused on, politically, at all. The MSM and pro-aborts keep bringing it up like it happens all the time.

[jimbo123]

Updated Facebook post by Megyn slammed by thousands of Fox viewers:

https://www.facebook.com/MegynKelly

Jeff Navarro You disappointed me last night. Unexceptable behavior.
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Cheryl Simpson There were more important questions than his ancient tiff with Rosie...
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Patricia Alzate Arcuri I’m sorry but I must disagree with you Megyn Kelly- using the fake “war on women” rhetoric to blast Donald Trump was just plain petulant and dumb. I expected more from you. #reallydisappointedinMegyn
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Shana Doty Disappointed in your performance last night. Totally disappointed. I guess EVER ONE does have an agenda
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Alfonso Benavides Acevedo Fair and balanced? Your dislike for Trump was very evident, very disappointed in you.
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Jay Sullivan I am assuming FOX News is in bed with the GOP Establishment ..Yall were pretty good at hiding it until last night..Disappointed in FOX for being Republican instead of representing the Conservative movement..Why represent a GOP Establishment when McCon...See More
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Tom Ward Still love you Megyn Kelly, but you need to be more “Fair and Balanced”. Openly attacking a candidate is wrong. You don’t work for NBC.
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Fran Jasmine Very disappointed...
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Camille Norton My family has enjoyed watching the Kelly File, and we were excited that you were hosting the debates. We were all so disappointed in your disrespectful questions which were clearly intended to denigrate the candidates. The candidates had to use their p...See More
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Dennis Gonzales At the top of my list were: the economy, the 18 trillion dollar debt, beheadings, radrical Islam, Obama’s trampling on the constitution, and the rampant corruption in Wash DC, After Kelly opened the debate with her question to Trump, I did not realize the more important question facing the nation was Trump’s name calling of Rosie Odonnell ! ! !
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Tim McGregor Do you realize how many people will never watch you again? It’s not because of being Trump fans either. I’m not a fan. It was an insult to the intelligence of the viewers who wanted to hear questions that weren’t as stupid as the two you started wit...See More
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Rodney White Last night was not supposed to be the Megyn Kelly show. You and Wallace should be ashamed by your performance and unfairness with tabloid questions for Trump. You just lost a loyal viewer to your show with your unprofessional behavior.
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Greg Peyton Megyn Kelly, YOU’RE FIRED....
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Lindsey Sagely No better than Candy Crawley last night. I’m extremely disappointed in your behavior. I wanted to hear policy questions not gotcha politics!
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Billy Dee Turner Great job last night Kelly!
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David S Ficco Definitely not fair and balanced last night. Very dissappointed....
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For-Don J Trump Unfair, inappropriate and unprofessional, that was you last night Megyn Kelly.
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Mary Walker Still haven’t outgrown that high school mean girl phase, huh? You ruined what could have been an epic debate last night.
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Faye Wall You owe your viewers an apology for your performance last night Kelly ! What a shame .
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Timothy Ruiz YOU WERE HORRIBLE MEGYN... THX for making DONALD TRUMP STRONGER
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Mike Bigg Johnston Wow . You baited Trump and the. Complain about the outcome ? You made yourself look like a CNN anchor . As a Republican I am so disappointed
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KarenMarie Saracino It should not be so obvious that you hate Donald Trump. In a one on one interview, ok , but as a debate moderator.... It was very Candy Crowley.
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Rob Shooer Megyn Kelly proved to be no better than any MSNBC “journalist” looking to ask the gotcha question. Her questions were weighted against certain candidates, and it’s time for her to just go to CNN where her style of journalism is advocated. Her question to Trump about women could have been a legitimate one, had she not added her own acusations, spin and slant. She’s objective? Ha!
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Charles Franco Fox and you were the losers last night Megyn, not Trump.
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Michelle Dallacroce MSNBC MUST HAVE AN OPENING BECAUSE MEGAN KELLY WAS OBVIOUSLY INTERVIEWING FOR IT!!!! Someone at MSNBC will be FIRED SOON!!!!
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Todd Ski You’re gone....UNLIKED here and at 9pm..... I’m no Trump fan but you were so unfair and biased, I can no longer put my trust in you !
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Ale Cardenas Nuñez Not “fair and balanced” Very disappointed!
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Jack Ricci Too bad you reminded me of The View with your questions and attitude last night. After watching you every night for years, now I am done.
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[chris37]

I can only imagine that a tubal pregnancy would be the most common example of a situation where a woman’s life could be endangered by a pregnancy.

But that situation is fairly rare and occurs very early on in a pregnancy.

[jimbo123]

I wonder who is the head of the strategies at Fox and sets their opinions or policies at Fox.

Rupert Murdoch.

[Genoa]

Check out the comments on Megyn’s Facebook post showing us the photo of her power walk to the stage last night. Heavy blame! https://www.facebook.com/MegynKelly/photos/a.1435328533396281.1073741828.1425464424382692/1600106656918467/?type=1&theater

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Sucks to be them?

Sucks to listen to them, they have it pretty good.

[dandiegirl]

I wonder if her ratings will go down now.

[King Hawk]

I'm not sure why people think FOX anchors are conservative. That's so far from true, it's not even funny. Hannity is the only conservative, the rest are very moderate.

Chris Wallace was raised in a socialist household.

[jimbo123]

[MaxMax]

My guess would be extremely rare, maybe 1 of 50-million. But they (D) would
rather 50-Million babies die to save one mothers life.

[Aria]

Her ratings are the ONLY thing I can think of that will matter to them. I will no longer watch her.

[GilGil]

OK. Let’s see.

Fox had its biggest ratings in history with 24 million people watching why? Because of Trump. The last debate they did came in at 3 million.

So they went out of their way to trash him their ratings bonanza and the moderators think they are responsible for such big ratings. People drunk with power are delusional.

Good luck getting Trump back on Fox or at least on Kelly’s,Baier’s, or Wallace’s show. Bye bye ratings.

[two23]

Most of the conservative women who watch fox news, do not need MegYn Kelly to stick up for “Gyrl Power”.
Her lame “mad as a hornet” look was embarrassing.

[Genoa]

That’s the photo. The comments on her FB post are the most negative backlash I’ve seen in a long time. These are people who were her fans before yesterday. She did herself some hurt.

[Jim W N]

It was worth the price of admission to see Trump put the adversarial and divisive Megyn Kelly and Chris Wallace in their places. Loved it. That’s why I liked to watch Newt Gingrich four years ago, becasue he wasn’t impressed with these self-important commentators and called them out when they asked him stupid questions.

The first thought I had, when I heard Trump was running - not about his winning or losing, just, “At least the debates will be interesting with him in there.”

As far as the obvious need to change the format (it’s not even close to a debate - more like Q&A session), an actual panel discussion wouldn’t be a bad format - this thing went for three hours, enough time to cover at least some of the important issues.

Some suggestions on a format change for the Republican candidates...

1) Neutral moderators who stay in the background

2) Rather than narrow, often meaningless and stupid questions, that are given to only certain candidates (what a stupid format - can’t compare that way with the “moderators” picking for their own purposes who answers which issue), instead revolve the discussion around four or five generally-agreed top issues of the day: a) big government b) the economy c) illegal immigration d) foreign policy e) national security

3) An open discussion of each issue, one issue at a time for a certain time period. Maybe each with brief opening statements on the issue, then opening it up to any and all to participate. This would of course also allow for meaningful open discussion and debate allowing the audience to actually compare and contrast the candidates, instead of these stupid 30-second sound bytes.

You may have to have some sessions that will mirror the 2016 General Election debate format to see how Republican candidates would do against Hillary or whoever the Socialist Democratic Party candidate is.